HBO Now heads to consoles with Xbox One and Xbox 360 apps (and some Samsung Smart TVs too)

HBO’s initial apps for consoles and Samsung Smart TVs are here to assistance we watch Game of Thrones but cable.

HBO Now has come a prolonged approach on app support given rising exclusively on Apple TV one year ago. The streaming use has now combined a initial console apps for Xbox 360 and Xbox One, along with support for new Samsung Smart TVs.

HBO Now is a $15-per-month standalone streaming service, that offers a full HBO catalog of strange shows, movies, documentaries, and specials. Although it doesn’t embody a live feed of HBO’s wire channel, some shows—including Game of Thrones—become accessible during a same time as a live telecast. (Cable subscribers who get HBO can instead use a existent HBO Go app for Xbox consoles during no additional charge.)

Aside from being HBO Now’s initial console releases, a Xbox 360 and Xbox One apps are notable since Microsoft isn’t doing signups. To use a new apps, you’ll initial have to pointer adult by a HBO Now app on iOS, Android, Roku, or Amazon Fire devices. (Verizon and Optimum Internet subscribers can also pointer adult on their particular websites.) Once you’ve subscribed, a login will work on any device with a HBO Now app—including Xbox One and Xbox 360—along with desktop web browsers.

Owners of 2016 Samsung Smart TVs will be means to pointer adult directly by a television. HBO says a app is “coming soon” to 2015 models using Samsung’s Tizen handling system.

Both a Xbox 360 and Xbox One apps support Kinect voice and suit controls, and a Xbox One app looks utterly identical to HBO Now’s apps on some other complicated streaming devices, including Fire TV and a fourth-generation Apple TV. The Xbox 360 app hews closer to a Metro-style interface used by a complement software.

There’s still no word on either HBO Now is headed to PlayStation consoles. For now, a network usually offers a cable-authenticated HBO Go apps on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

Why this matters: HBO Now already supports all of a vital streaming TV platforms, including Android TV, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, and Roku. Game consoles and intelligent TVs would be a judicious subsequent steps. With HBO apparently determining that it doesn’t need each height to hoop new signups, maybe a gait of new device support will energise from here on.

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